Documentation

Here’s a summary of the key files created within the starter blog project:

From https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-blog.html

Documentation

My dilemma

• I’m too lazy/busy to actually maintain an active blog
• Most of my writing effort goes into research papers
• I still want an online presence that showcases my work

The Realization

Talk Functions

• format functions - create markup for specific fields
  e.g. format_post_name, format_abstract, format_slides, format_keywords, format_event

• yaml_kv for fixing up yaml entries properly

• talk_to_params - create data frame with columns that map to key-value pairs

• create_talk - creates whole qmd file from parameters

• get_image_link - creates an image for the talk

talk_to_params()

Goal: Format all the components of the qmd posts, keeping results in a data frame

create_talk()

Goal: Create a qmd file from a single row of data

get_image_link()

Goal: Get something to use as a cover image

• If there is an image value in the spreadsheet:
  • specified image link from the talk
  • screenshot of specific slide
• Otherwise
  • screenshot of first slide
  • empty field

Paper Functions

• yaml_kv for fixing up yaml entries properly

• pub_to_params - create data frame with columns that map to key-value pairs

• create_paper - creates whole qmd file from parameters

pub_to_params()

Goal: Format all the components of the qmd post, keeping results in a data frame

Works similarly to talk_to_params() but:

• handles dates from bibtex files (not always ymd format)
• adds bibliographic citation and bibtex code to entry text